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...behavior," and his "provocative attitude" toward the Red Chinese. He described Nikita's shoe banging at the United Nations in 1960 as "harmful to the reputation of the Soviet Union throughout the world." And he raised the matter of nepotism. Khrushchev had proposed that his son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, be appointed to the Secretariat and placed in charge of agriculture...
Most Fascinating Dictator. For outsiders, the next clue to Nikita's fate came three days later, when home-bound Moscow workers queued up before newspaper kiosks and were greeted with hastily scribbled signs: "There will be no Izvestia tonight." Something was definitely in the works. Shortly after midnight, Tass tersely announced it. Nikita Khrushchev had been "released" from all his duties "at his own request" for reasons of "age and deteriorating health." His successors were named and congratulated: Leonid Brezhnev, 57, Secretary of the Central Committee, and Aleksei Kosygin, 60, who had served as First Deputy Premier...
...corner the Khrushchev story, the Times mustered all three of its house Kremlinologists-Harry Schwartz, who knows Soviet economics, Harrison E. Salisbury, who can read Pravda and Izvestia without a pony, and Max Frankel, who taps Russian experts in the State Department. Foreign News Editor Emanuel Freedman calmly placed a phone call to Moscow 955477, three hours later was talking to the Times's Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Tanner. In the meantime, other messages had been relayed to Tanner through the Times's London and Paris bureaus...
Amateurs. Somewhat lamely, both Washington and London denied "the validity of the charges," accused Moscow of a "flagrant violation" of the rules of diplomatic immunity. In answer, both Izvestia and Pravda started printing the military secrets the officers were accused of uncovering-for example, a badly overexposed photograph of "twelve rocket carriers for intercontinental missiles...
Soon, of course, Goldwater, will say he was misquoted by the New York Times, that Eastern Izvestia. Or perhaps that he was misled by his speech-writer, Karl Hess, an editor of the American Mercury when it began its anti-semitic period...